In unexpectedly great news, HBO has announced that they’re going ahead with a third season of their detective anthology series “True Detective,” and have brought in a steady hand to help creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto.

That hand? David Milch, the creator of the network’s iconic western series “Deadwood” according to EW. So far, Pizzolatto has reportedly penned at least the first two episodes of the new season.

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By Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz

Whenever arguments are held about the best TV dramas of all time, and particularly of this modern golden age, Deadwood — like Deadwood’s craven mayor, E. B. Farnum (William Sanderson), whenever there’s important scheming to do — gets left out. It’s not that people can’t recognize the brilliant performances,

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Deadwood fans saw a slight flicker of hope last month for the long-awaited sequel to the series. Concluding David Milch‘s riveting series as an HBO film has been talked about for years, but it’s finally seeming, oddly, more realistic as the years go by.

DEADWOOD | Romantics would have us believe that Calamity Martha Jane Canary, who rode into Deadwood in the summer of 1876 with Wild Bill Hickok and Colorado Charlie Utter, was a fragrant, mild-mannered frontier scout and sharpshooter welcomed into the fledgling, woman-starved mining camp.

Actress Doris Day, renowned for her portrayal of virtuous women, even portrayed her as such in the 1953 comedic-musical-romance movie, “Calamity Jane,” a real buckskin-clad woman forced to rescue her love interest from Native Americans.

Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Molly Parker and the rest kept busy after the HBO series ended.

By: Adam Proteau, Special to the Star, Published on Sat Jan 16 2016

Deadwood has been off the air for nearly a decade, but the HBO series’ stellar group of actors moved on to do great work after. Here’s a look at what key cast members have added to their resumés and where they are today: